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Freischu%CC%88Tz%20Educational Dear Opera friends, teachers, scholars and kids, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the premiere of Der Freischütz, June 18th, 1821 in Berlin, we want to share some information that you can use for school and education. The film as well as the music of Der Freischütz can be found on the homepage www.freischütz.com which we are publishing on the occasion of the anniversary. Enjoy! Syquali Crossmedia AG IMPRESSUM © Syquali Crossmedia AG & Family Weber in Zurich for the 200th anniversary of the Freischütz opera 2021 With kind support from Merbag AG. Syquali Crossmedia AG Seestrasse 261 CH-8038 Zurich Switzerland 2 Contents GREETING 5 CARL MARIA VON WEBER 6 WORKS 7 TRAVELS 8 DER FREISCHÜTZ - THE PLOT 10 LETTERS 13 HISTORY 14 SUBJECT MATTER AND TIME 16 A GOTHIC NOVEL 17 TURN OF AN ERA 18 ROMANTICISM 19 INTERNATIONAL CARL MARIA VON WEBER SOCIETY 20 CARL MARIA VON WEBER COLLECTED WORKS (WEGA) 20 CARL-MARIA-VON-WEBER-MUSEUM IN DRESDEN 21 SUMMARY 22 3 Greeting Carl-Maria von Weber opened up new perspectives for German opera in his day, both for music and performance practice, especially with »Der Freischütz«. With »Hunter’s Bride - Der Freischütz« Jens Neubert has created something great new. He looked right into this masterpiece of Carl Maria von Weber - felt it and especially listened to it. He made Weber’s »Der Freischütz« a matter close to his heart. The director left Webers’s novel music and its colorful sounds integral in a won- derful way, interpreted it in a classic way and, in a congenial way, transported the work into the composer’s unrest and upheaval. Thanks to his creative use of the medium of film, he can give the plot the originally intended drama, with excellent vocals and performance support from a great team of international world-class singers. My great, great, great grandfather would have been delighted with this all-round Christian Max Maria von Weber with Jens Neubert 2010 harmonious version because he was understood so well. He would have loved the interpreters of Agathe and Ännchen, they are so wonderful to listen to and beautiful to look at and of course he would have admired the singers, as well as the great camera work, wonderful colors and costumes! All the artists in »Hunter’s Bride« let their characters live intensely and you literally suffer with the young lovers and heroes in these dire, disoriented war and resto- ration years of the early 19th century. Jens Neubert has succeeded in creating a masterpiece in every respect with this coherent opera film. It is another important milestone in the reception history of the »Der Freischütz«. Christian Max Maria von Weber Great-great-great-grandson of the composer 4 Carl Maria von Weber His full name: Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber. Born on November 18 or 19, 1786, in Eutin, Germany, as son of Genovefa and Anton, Carl started into a life full of ups and downs of the Napoleonic wars. He was a brilliant composer, conductor, musician and author of the romantic school. Today most people know at least his famous opera »Der Freischütz« (»Hunter’s Bride«), or even »Oberon« and »Euryanthe«. Furthermore, the »Freischütz« is often regarded as the first German »national« opera. It is true that people of his time experienced the performances like today’s rock concerts; Its melodies are at the same time sensitive, tuneful, catchy and overwhelming. Carl Maria was wandering through Europeg as a child: His father had a touring theatre until 1796. It was also his father who recognized the great talent of Carl Maria and devoted a lot of time into his musical training. Carl soon gave his first great performances. Aged 18, Carl Maria was already the musical director and conductor in Breslau (Silesia). At this time, he began to reform the performance practice, as it is widely valid until today. The press usually was full of praise. How- ever, sometimes the critics wrote that he conducted a bit too fast. In 1807, Carl Maria had to leave Silesia due to the invasion of Napoleonic troops. Portrait of Carl Maria von Weber After he held the rather boring office of an intimate state secretary in Württem- berg until 1810 – but stimulatingly composing works; for piano, his opera »Silvana«, etc. – he started again years of traveling through Germany and Europe. He finally settled down as head of the Prague musical theatre in 1813, where he fell in love with the married actress and dancer Therese Brunetti. Hence this passion did not prove successful, he turned to the beautiful black-haired Caroline Brandt. He had to make a lot of efforts until they finally got married in 1817. However, Prague turned out to be the wrong environment for his creativity; beside the everyday work in the theatre and concert tours, he did not have enough time for his com- positions. Therefore, the couple decided to move to Dresden where he became Court Kapellmeister and went on with reforms and compositions. Dresden, August Bride and Court Theatre His opera premieres of »Euryanthe« (1823 in Vienna), »Oberon« (1826 in Lon- don) and especially of »Der Freischütz« (1821 in Berlin) became a resounding success and profiled him as a European composer. Carl Maria von Weber’s life must have been fairly exhausting; next to all his travelling he had been fighting tuberculosis since child days. In February 1826, he traveled to Paris and further to London where he died in the night of June 4–5, 1826, aged 39. He was buried in the tomb of Moorsfield Chapel but in 1844, his coffin transferred to Dresden where the composer Richard Wagner gave his famous eulogy »At Weber’s last resting place«. However, we would like you to remember Carl Maria von Weber as a man sitting in his garden house in Hosterwitz near Dresden, composing the »Freischütz«, sur- New market in Dresden rounded by beloved Caroline, his son Max Maria (born in 1822) and a lot of pets; among them a turtle, a monkey, a cat and a dog. When enjoying the evenings in his garden, he sometimes used to lift his cap and to the say: »Thanks god – I guess that I am the happiest man in the world«. 5 Works Carl Maria von Weber had been composing all his life. His life’s work comprise more than 400 pieces, and more than 30 poets – among them William Shake- speare, Ludwig Tieck or Carl Maria himself – contributed the texts (i.e. »librettos«) to his compositions. Very often, Carl Maria dedicated his works to persons who were important to him: e.g. to crowned heads such as King Johann I. of Saxony, or to poets such as Johann Friedrich Kind, or to his wife Caroline. Carl Maria’s first work was published when he was 12 years old (»Sechs Fughet- ten« i.e. »Six Fughettas«). To his works of course belong stage entertainments such as the operas »Der Freischütz« (Hunter’s Bride), »Euryanthe«, »Oberon«, »Silvana«, or »Peter Schmoll and his neighbors«, but also numerous pieces of chamber, piano as well as sacred music, music for ballets, waltz, marches, songs, and even fanfares. Furthermore, Carl Maria also had been a gifted author. He not only wrote hun- dreds of letters to an awful lot of people, but also diaries, short stories, essays and articles as music journalist. His polished diction was famous for his refined humor. 6 Travels Carl Maria von Weber had been traveling all his life. After he was born in Eutin, he moved with his parents to Hamburg in 1787. Before and after the move, Weber used to travel to Vienna to visit relatives living there. However, already in 1789, he joined a drama society, performing in sev- eral German cities, among them Kassel; but starting from 1789 until 1796, Carl Maria traveled together with his family across Europe to Nuremberg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Weimar, Salzburg and so on. After a father-and-son-tour through Saxony and Bohemia, they ended up in Freiberg, which was a mining centre at the time. In 1804, Carl Maria moved via Salzburg, Munich, Augsburg and probably Karls- bad to Breslau (Silesia) where he became a musical director and conductor. Due to movements of the Napoleonic troops, he turned to Württemberg, where he spent the years from 1807–1810 as a state secretary of Duke Louis, the young- er brother of the Württemberg King. Funny enough, Carl Maria himself called the following years until 1813 his »travel- ing years«. However, looking for a job and giving concerts, he once again traveled through Germany to finally stay in Prague until 1816. Unsatisfied with his more uncreative job at the musical theatre, Carl Maria moved in 1817 to Dresden as Court Kapellmeister; premieres of his operas »Der Freischütz« (1821 in Berlin), »Euryanthe« (1823 in Vienna), »Oberon« (1826 in London) and concert tours led him to Paris and all through Europe. From this eventful, unsettled life it can be easily understood that Carl Maria is far from being a national but a European composer, as a cosmopolitan artist who was well versed in the ways of the world. He even included a Chinese tune in his incidental music for the theatre play »Turandot«. Hohenstein, Germany Pirna, Germany Tetschen, Germany 7 8 Der Freischütz - The Plot Act 1: EVIL POWERS BEGINS TO GATHER Following the end of the war, a marksmanship contest is held during which a pros- perous farmer (Kilian) is proclaimed the winner and not the young hunter Max, who on the next day is supposed to succeed the head gamekeeper Kuno and marry his daughter Agathe.
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